Literature - Adventure

The boy in the burning house

Fourteen-year-old Jim Hawkins is grappling with the mysterious disappearance of his father, Hub, in their small Canadian town. While the community presumes suicide, Jim holds onto hope that his father is...

Vango

Vango is Russian, or perhaps French, but he spent his childhood in the Aeolian Islands. He speaks five languages, but he has no homeland. The woman who raised him, Mademoiselle, has always hidden his past...

Great Expectations

Philip Pirrip ('Pip') is a small village boy being brought up by the blacksmith Joe Gargery. He is told to go and visit the house of Miss Havisham, whose mind had been badly affected by being jilted at the...

When the Eagle hunts

Third book in the series starring the Roman soldiers Cato and Macro. 

“After the bloody conquest of Camulodumo, during the harsh winter of 44 A.D. the Roman army prepares to extend the invasion of...

Red Winter

1985: For Jack Ryan, the Cold War is burning hot. A top-secret F117 aircraft crashes in the Nevada Desert. The Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mystery contacts...

Trust

Martin Scarsen's new life seems perfect, right up until its shattered by a voicemail: a single scream abrupted cut off, from his partner Blonde Mandalay.

The Bourne Evolution

Bourne is back....and cross hairs of every intelligent agency is after him.

New York congresswoman has been murder, and it seems that Jason did it.

The Gold Bug

The author wrote extraordinary stories and this is undoubtedly one of them. Its protagonist is William Legrand, a passionate entomologist. Together with a servant named Jupiter, they live on an island off...

The City of Dreaming Books

"A fantastic journey into the magical kingdom of literature."  Back cover synopsis: 

What if books had a life of their own? Shortly before his death, the great writer Danzarote gives his young...

The Prisoner of Zenda

Rudolf Rassendyll is a wealthy young Englishman, who decides to leave the comfort of his village to attend the coronation of Rudolf V in distant Ruritania. But the day before the coronation the future...